Tracking collar or GPS for you saddle animal

[Mike Leonard]

[doug]

Thats a good idea,and not just for saddle beasts either.I have left a tracking collar on in the pickup several times just for that occasion,not that much fun wandering around looking for your ride after wandering around looking for your dogs.

[Cowboyvon]

Thats one of the only reasons I carry a GPS .. except now I have one of the Astros and it does the same thing.. I always mark where I tie up and where the truck is.. also since I hunt on some ranches I mark gates or what we call horse gates that aren't necessarily on roads.. It sure helps when you get caught out after dark and your trying to get back and you can't find that gate you came through or the trailer...

[Mike Leonard]

Excellent point on the gates CV!

I also carry a tool I bought at King Saddlery called a Plammer. It is a wire plier and hammer all in one. I carry some staples and some extra smooth wire with me. I repair a fence if I know they have stock running in the area and it is down, and I have at times had to make my own gate because the blasted BLM and FS forgot that occasionaly they need to put a gate in a fence so sombody can travel thru!

[Travis Stirek]

Mike I always like to carry one of those tools too,because for me around here anyway,the oldtimers when they built fence never put gates in corners(where it always seems cows or horses want to go on their own).Maybe cattle back then only walked on trails.LOL Always a pain in the butt to have a bunch gathered up and the gate is 200 yards up the hill in a section fence and they all want to go down hill to a corner.I like to use my GPS and spring branding time to mark where I saw a newborn that is to small to make the trip right then and I don't have time to field brand.

[Cowboyvon]

You can also take a couple small pieces of rope and pop the top 2 or 3 strands off the posts and use the rope to cinch them down tight to the bottom strands..then I zip my carhart over the wire and even one of my old fat roping horses can jump the fence.. I've got these mules now and I haven't tried them on any fences but they can sure clear downed logs pretty easy and sure enough seem willing to jump everything so far hopefully all I'll have to do throw a tarp over the top strand..

[Machias]

[montananative]

[Cowboyvon]

Here you go Machias.... I guess you can follow em if you can find them



Thats Mike Bency getting out the tracker..

[BEARCLAW]

[pegleg]

i carry water for my hounds, in my saddle bags . so the hounds are usually pretty interested in helping find them after a hard day. probably wouldn't work as well in areas with water. i also keep my horses and hounds in the same pens.i can't load one up with out the other raisin hell. they appreciate the horses for their shade giving qualities too. but it sure makes sense to use the tracker/gps

[Big Mike]

When I hunted with my outfittin buddies and they have clients we always put a tracking collar on in their packs on on there mule. Its come in handy a few times!!

[bluedog4]

This reminds me of a Big Horn Hunt a buddy and me made way up in the Wilmore Wilderness. I shot a sheep just before dark and by the time we even got close to where we thought the horses were tide it was way past midnight, It took us over two hours to locate the horses and we only did because my buddy's horse had a really white Blaze.
We kept getting glimses of white from this deep dark valley. My tracking system or a GPS would have come in real handing on this hunt.

[liontracker]

Also works good in the car of a teenager that you need to keep track of!!!